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Christmas amid COVID
December 11, 2020When a local teacher recently asked a little boy what he enjoyed about last Christmas, he told her about going to church on Christmas Eve to worship Jesus and walking home, hand in hand, with his family. It was a good night, he said, because he felt closer to God. How will churches capture this same powerful childlike awareness of Emmanuel—God with us—amid pandemic restrictions? […]
Read full articleChurches united in compassion
December 3, 2020Jesus established one Church. Despite the many denominations and distinctions among believers, His Church is still one, as the Ottawa Compassion Collective shows. “The Collective helps […]
Read full articleBethlehem Live sells out two weeks before event
November 27, 2020“Our hope and prayer is that many would hear the Good News of Jesus as they come through.” Craig Macartney
Read full articleCOVID leads to increased interest in homeschooling
November 20, 2020When most of Ottawa was forced to lock down last March, homeschooling families were already well positioned in a safer situation. So how are the changes this year affecting homeschoolers? One misconception is that, in normal […]
Read full articleComing back together
November 13, 2020While the government now allows faith communities to gather, in many ways those gatherings have changed from what church used to be. Spur Ottawa connected with six different churches to gauge the state of the Body of Christ in Ottawa, what challenges we face, and to hear praise reports […]
Read full articleChristmas in box
November 5, 2020It’s that time of year again. Christmas is coming, which means Operation Christmas Child is in full swing. Started by Samaritan’s Purse, in 1993, the ministry has given 178 million shoeboxes full of gifts to children around […]
Read full articleOutreach group accidentally plants house church
October 29, 2020At first, Dundonald Park was quiet. The late-September skies were overcast and threatening rain as a small group arrived with members of CityChurch Hawthorne and e3 Canada. By the time they left, the park was no longer quiet and they were planting a new church […]
Read full articleGod’s love in a box to go
October 22, 2020Early in the pandemic, the Ottawa Mission realized they could no longer serve clients the way they had previously. A serious concern among inner-city charities was the risk of the city’s most vulnerable going hungry. In the face of […]
Read full articleCampus Ministries and COVID-19: What’s Happening?
October 16, 2020How are Ottawa’s campus ministries handling the COVID-19 crisis? To explore this question, Spur Ottawa connected with four ministries that are deeply involved with post-secondary […]
Read full articleResponding to the second pandemic
October 8, 2020Fear. Hopelessness. Isolation. Anxiety. Mental health issues have become the silent pandemic, going viral as the lockdown, financial woes, and relational stress collide with society’s heightened fears. One quarter of Canadians […]
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